Daily Visual 30.05.15: Europe’s Cup Final Climax
It was a day of cup finals across Europe’s major footballing nations. In England, league form over the course of the 2014/15 season held into the FA Cup final, as Arsenal – who...
It was a day of cup finals across Europe’s major footballing nations. In England, league form over the course of the 2014/15 season held into the FA Cup final, as Arsenal – who...
With the Premier League title secured weeks ago by Chelsea, and the Champions League qualification places decided over the past week – Arsenal joining Chelsea and Manchester City in qualifying for the...
Formed in the autumn of 2013, last May the England Commission – established by the Football Association to improve English football and aid the national team, and headed by FA Chairman Greg Dyke...
Going into Saturday’s match at St. James’ Park, Chelsea squatted imperiously atop the Premier League. Undefeated after fourteen games, and with thirty-six points thanks to eleven wins and three draws, they remained...
Arsenal Arsenal led the Premier League for the majority of last season, but fell away towards the latter stages and finished seven points behind champions Manchester City. Mesut Ozil’s signing last summer...
—————— In five parts and totalling about 15,000 words – analysing the final of the tournament, viewing all thirty-two competing nations, and offering a wider perspective comprising fashion, politics, music, technology, and...
While on the field, the 2014 World Cup saw the rise of new superstars, the decline of footballing philosophies, the interplay between varying formations, and appeared to demonstrate the narrowing of traditional...
France An indifferent World Cup for France was encapsulated by their 1-0 defeat in the quarter-finals against Germany, in one of the tournament’s most disappointing and uninspiring games. France had started the...
This first set of evaluations of the teams who competed at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil comprises the participants of groups A-D, listed in the order in which they finished the...